Publications
Books Edited
Listening to Ourselves: A Multilingual Anthology of African Philosophy (Albany, NY: State
University of New York Press, 2013). Foreword by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.
· Reviews:
o Albert Mosley, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (Jan. 25, 2014):
<http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/45831-listening-to-ourselves-a-multilingual-anthologyof-african-philosophy>
o Gail M. Presbey, Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review/Revue canadienne de
philosophie, DOI: <http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0012217314000274>
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Comments
“Anna Julia Cooper and the Black Gift Thesis,” History of Philosophy Quarterly 33 (January
2016): 79-97.
“The Ethics and Politics of Cultural Preservation,” The Journal of Value Inquiry 49 (March
2015): 205-220.
“Prospects for African Canadian Philosophy,” The C.L.R. James Journal: A Review of
Caribbean Ideas 20 (Fall 2014): 251-255. Comment in special issue on “Black Canadian
Thought.”
“Appiah’s Cosmopolitanism,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 51 (December 2013): 488510.
“A Westian Vision of the Role of Black Philosophy,” The Black Scholar 43 (Winter 2013): 2431.
“Anderson on Multiculturalism and Blackness: A Comment on Elizabeth Anderson’s The
Imperative of Integration,” Symposia on Gender, Race, and Philosophy 9 (Fall 2013):
<http://sgrp.typepad.com/sgrp/fall-2013-symposium-anderson-on-integration.html>.
“Embodying Justice in Ancient Egypt: The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant as a Classic of Political
Philosophy,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (May 2013): 421-442.
·
Featured in “Editor’s Choice Collection,” an online edition of the British Journal for the
History of Philosophy, featuring 21 articles from the journal’s history to celebrate its 21
years of existence: http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/ah/rbjh-editors-choice-collection
“The Cultural Theory of Race: Yet Another Look at Du Bois’s “The Conservation of Races,””
Ethics 123 (April 2013): 403-426.
·
Subject of a special discussion on the blog PEA Soup, featuring a critical précis of the
article by Tommie Shelby: http://peasoup.typepad.com/peasoup/2013/06/ethicsdiscussion-at-pea-soup-chike-jefferss-the-cultural-theory-of-race-yet-another-look-at-dubois.html
“Do We Need African Canadian Philosophy?” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review/Revue
canadienne de philosophie 51 (December 2012): 643-666.
“Kwasi Wiredu et la question du nationalisme culturel,” Critique 771-772 (Aug-Sept 2011): 639649. Translated into French by Philippe Roger.
“Strategies of Organization: Paget Henry and Traditional African Philosophy,” The C.L.R. James
Journal: A Review of Caribbean Ideas 10 (Winter 2004): 13-23.
Other Publications in Periodicals
“Bessone sur la race et la culture,” Philosophiques 40 (Fall 2013): 473-477. Translated into
French by the journal.
“Introduction to “The Development of a People”” (with Robert Gooding-Williams), Ethics 123
(April 2013): 521-524.
“The Pitfalls of Placing the African Personality on the World Stage: Edward Blyden’s Cultural
Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism,” The APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black
Experience 9 (Spring 2010): 1-5.
Works in Edited Volumes
“Rights, Race, and the Beginnings of Modern Africana Philosophy,” in Linda Alcoff, Luvell
Anderson, and Paul C. Taylor (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race (New
York: Routledge, forthcoming).
“Du Bois, Appiah, and Outlaw on Racial Identity,” in Naomi Zack (ed.), The Oxford Handbook
of Philosophy and Race, (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
“Bringing Africa to the Americas: The Creolizing of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy,” in Jacoby
Adeshei Carter and Hernando A. Estevez (eds.), Philosophizing the Americas: An InterAmerican Discourse (New York: Fordham University Press, forthcoming).
“Slavery, Freedom, and Equality: Cugoano and Locke on Natural Rights,” in Nathaniel Adam
Tobias Coleman and Simon Roberts-Thomson (eds.), The Philosophy of Slavery and
Emancipation (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
“Wiredu and the Question of Cultural Nationalism,” in D.A. Masolo (ed.), Reason, Culture, and
Humanism: The Philosophy of Kwasi Wiredu (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press,
forthcoming).
“W.E.B. Du Bois’ “Whither Now and Why,”” in Eric Schliesser (ed.), Ten Neglected Classics of
Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 222-254.
“Should Black Kids Avoid Wearing Hoodies?,” in George Yancy and Janine Jones (eds.),
Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial
Dynamics (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012), 129-140.
“Black Panthers” and “Davis, Angela Y.,” in Abiola Irele and Biodun Jeyifo (eds.), The Oxford
Encyclopedia of African Thought (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 172-174, 281282.
“Black Civilization and the Dialogue of Cultures: Senghor’s Combination of Cultural
Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism,” in Isabelle Constant and Kahiudi Mabana (eds.), Negritude:
Legacy and Present Relevance (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009),
54-64.
“Strategies of Organization: Paget Henry and Traditional African Philosophy,” in Marina Paolo
Banchetti-Robino and Clevis Ronald Headley (eds.), Shifting the Geography of Reason: Gender,
Science and Religion (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006), 142-152.
Reviews
Review of Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Emergence of
Identity, in Critical Philosophy of Race 4, no. 1 (2016): 127-138.
Review of Suzanne Césaire, The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941-1945), ed. Daniel
Maximin, trans. Keith L. Walker, in the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 21
(June 2013): 183-192.
Review of Robert Birt (ed.), The Liberatory Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Critical Essays
on the Philosopher King, in The APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience 12
(Spring 2013): 38-41.
Review of David Boonin’s Should Race Matter? Unusual Answers to the Usual Questions, in
Critical Philosophy of Race 1, no. 1 (2013): 125-130.
Translations (from French into English)
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson and the Idea of
Negritude (London: Seagull Books, 2012). Translation of Léopold Sédar Senghor : l’art africain
comme philosophie (Paris: Riveneuve, 2007).
Aimé Césaire, “Letter to Maurice Thorez,” Social Text 103 (Summer 2010): 143-150.
Translation of Lettre à Maurice Thorez (Paris: Présence Africaine, 1956).
Scholarly Blog Publications
“Philosophers on the Charleston Massacre” (with others), Daily Nous (June 22, 2015):
<http://dailynous.com/2015/06/22/philosophers-on-the-charleston-massacre>.
“Africana Pluralism and the Future of Philosophy of Race,” xcphilosophy (January 14, 2015):
<http://xcphilosophy.org/2015/01/14/africana-pluralism-and-the-future-of-philosophy-of-race>.